Google developing kill switch for future AI

Developers at Google are taking steps to make sure future artificial intelligence technology has a kill switch. tmeier1964 / Pixabay 167 SHARES Sci-fi movies and even such eminent names as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have long warned that rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) could one day take over the world. Now, researchers at Google are working hard to make sure that never becomes a reality. The Google team published their concerns in a paper titled Safely Interruptible Agents, which outlines how intelligent machines could be prevented from learning to override human input. This would allow humans to always be in control. While rogue AI-endowed machines are not currently an issue — or even close to one — it is something researchers are seriously thinking about. They say it is important to…